things that dream and talk in their sleep

‘it is not so much the reality of matter, and its problematic solidity, as its significance as a landmark to designate space, to sensitise us to time and our own existence, that attaches the object to the representative forms of our mental life’. tristan tzara ‘things that dream and talk in their sleep’ an idiosyncratic archive I am interested in connotation and emotional association specifically within the philosophical definition of abstract meaning relating not to word but to the discarded and superfluous of our lived experience. We evolve, through growth, physically and emotionally, we become … To retrace is to recapture time and space. In retrospect it is possible we can reclaim an item, in this case the discarded shoes of my children and provoke a symbiotic narrative. Associative memory describes precious childhood adventure but this fairytale reverie is haunted by a rupture. Space in the form of time facilitates the ability to transcend emotional bruising and attempt to define, resolve and clarify the vacillations, the ambiguities, the instabilities.